JGC Secures Prelude and Hassi R'Mel Jobs

Japan’s JGC Corp has secured valuable contracts from Shell and Sonatrach for major gas engineering work in Australia and Algeria.

On December 9 it has received an order for the construction management and completion support services for the 3.6mn mt/yr Prelude floating liquefaction project from Shell, while the previous day the Japanese firm scooped a $1bn-plus contract in Algeria.

Since the final investment decision on Prelude was made in May, 2011, European and Korean contractors have executed engineering, procurement and construction of the FLNG facility.

JGC said that a Korean shipyard has now completed module installation work for Prelude and that, with construction now in its final stages and “commissioning well and truly underway”, Shell has contracted JGC to support the completions work for its safe and on-schedule completion. JGC performed a similar role for Shell at its giant 140,000 b/d Pearl GTL complex in Qatar in 2012 – for which it also had the prior EPC contract.

in Algeria, JGC said December 8 it had been awarded the contract from Sonatrach to extend the boosting compression facilities at the ageing giant gas field, Hassi R’Mel, in the Sahara Desert. JGC said it will be responsible for EPC work plus operation and performance testing of the complete booster unit set, scheduled to be completed in 38 months. The value of its lumpsum turnkey contract is some yen 120bn ($1.05bn).

The value of its new Prelude contract, a facility that is due to start producing next year, was not disclosed although is not expected to be as large.

Mark Smedley